Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMANWhy nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.
More Richard Feynman Quotes
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Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
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I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
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Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
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I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
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You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
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I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.
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I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.
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